Cage Warriors 49 takes place Oct. 27 at St David’s Hall in Cardiff, Wales, and the main card streams live and free on MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

Carvalho has won nine of his past 10 bouts over a stretch of three and a half years, with his lone loss coming against former DREAM champion and current Bellator fighter Marius Zaromskis. Pendred looks to remain unbeaten under the Cage Warriors banner and is 4-0-1 in his past five fights, including a decision win over UFC vet David Bielkheden in June.

Loughran has rebounded from six straight losses over a two-year stretch to win four straight. His resume includes wins over UFC and “TUF” veterans Andre Winner and Jonathan Brookins. A Bellator loss to Eddie Alvarez started his six-fight losing skid in 2009. Newman returns to Cage Warriors after a 10-second knockout of Grzegorz Tredowski at Cage Warriors 42. This past December, he dropped a unanimous decision to UFC vet Curt Warburton at BAMMA 8.

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